Archinect - News2024-11-23T06:38:46-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/77532933/containers-without-content
Containers without Content Orhan Ayyüce2013-07-22T12:33:00-04:00>2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2u/2uabppf2d344u9mp.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Far from being anchored in the local context, the project (the disastrous City of Culture of Galicia outside Santiago de Compostela, designed by Peter Eisenman) has decapitated Monte de Gaias and replaced it with a phony landscape with curves like those of a fun-fair roller coaster. These cynical intellectual manipulations cannot mask the reality of structures resembling supermarkets twisted about with algorithms and camouflaged with a thin veneer of granite (imported from Brasil!).</p></em><br /><br /><p>
In a short sweet and illustrated article writer historian William J.R. Curtis puts several Bilbao effect projects in the trash can. It might as well be called "f..k content."</p>